OpenStack Glance before 2015.1.1 (kilo) allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (disk consumption) by repeatedly using the import task flow API to create images and then deleting them.
The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:
Find out more about CVE-2015-3289 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
This issue does not affect any versions of openstack-glance as shipped with any currently supported releases of Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform.
NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
| Base Score | 2.7 |
|---|---|
| Base Metrics | AV:A/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P |
| Access Vector | Adjacent Network |
| Access Complexity | Low |
| Authentication | Single |
| Confidentiality Impact | None |
| Integrity Impact | None |
| Availability Impact | Partial |
Find out more about Red Hat support for the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7.0 (Kilo) for RHEL 7 | openstack-glance | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6.0 (Juno) for RHEL 7 | openstack-glance | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) | openstack-glance | Not affected |
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